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November 24, 2000

Jakarta Post - November 24, 2000

Jakarta – After a series of long investigations, police named nine high-ranking military and police officers on Thursday as suspects in the…

November 23, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - November 23, 2000

Mark Dodd on the Patricia Anne Hotung – As dawn broke yesterday scores of refugees scrambled up to the deck of this former Australian Navy survey…

Far Eastern Economic Review - November 23, 2000

Dini Djalal, Jakarta – Luxury resorts across the country were inspected, as were fancy restaurants and race tracks, the favourite haunts of the…

Detik - November 23, 2000

Chaidir Anwar Tanjung/BI & GB, Pekanbaru – Seven islands in Riau province have disappeared completely since 1980 due to environmental…

South China Morning Post - November 23, 2000

Vaudine England – Police arrested Aceh's leading student activist and yesterday threatened imposition of emergency rule if progress was not made…

Indonesian Observer - November 23, 2000

Jakarta – At least 150 Acehnese youths living in Jakarta staged a protest outside National Police headquarters yesterday, demanding the release of…

Detik - November 23, 2000

Khairul Ikhwan D/BI & GB, Medan – Tens of entertainment workers gathered at the Medan Tourism office in North Sumatra province to urge the…

Detik - November 23, 2000

Khaerul Ikhwan/Fitri & GB, Medan – Up to 500 workers and NGO members staged a rally in front of the North Sumatra Governor's office on Jl…

Agence France Presse - November 23, 2000

Jakarta – Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer should stay out of Irian Jaya's affairs, the man spearheading a growing separatist movement…

Associated Press - November 23, 2000 (abridged)

Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta – Police fired warning shots Thursday and beat demonstrators at the national parliament, where opposing…

Indonesian Observer - November 23, 2000

Jakarta – Hundreds of women yesterday staged a rally against a phony recruitment firm that swindled them out of millions of rupiah.

The…

Jakarta Post - November 23, 2000

Jakarta – Indonesian Prosperous Labor Union (SBSI) chairman Muchtar Pakpahan filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against National Police chief Gen.…

Indonesian Observer - November 23, 2000

Pekanbaru – No work! No pay! Thats the message from embattled oil company PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia (CPI) to its striking contract workers in…

Asia Times - November 23, 2000

Kanis Dursin, Jakarta – Opposition from civilian politicians is stalling efforts by Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid to assert civilian…

November 22, 2000

Christian Science Monitor - November 22, 2000

Dan Murphy, Jakarta – When a rash of explosions rocks Jakarta, they are the immediate suspects. When mysterious "ninja" killers execute dozens of…

Green Left Weekly - November 22, 2000

Max Lane, Jakarta – Leaders of the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation here are preparing a major gathering of activists to discuss…

South China Morning Post - November 22, 2000

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Giving money and power to more than 350 districts across the country is the only way Indonesia can survive as a nation-…

Green Left Weekly - November 22, 2000

Max Lane, Jakarta – On November 14, six members of the Central Leadership Council of the People's Democratic Party (KPP-PRD) announced the…

Xinhua - November 22, 2000

Jakarta – The Indonesian National Resilience Institute, an institute under the Ministry of Defense, said here Wednesday that the country is facing…

South China Morning Post - November 22, 2000

Vaudine England, Jakarta – The remains of 24 former communists slaughtered during the massacre of 1966-67 have been recovered from a mass grave in…

Agence France Presse - November 22, 2000 (abridged)

Jakarta – The Indonesian government on Wednesday warned that it will get tough against separatist movements in Aceh and Irian Jaya provinces at…

Green Left Weekly - November 22, 2000

Pip Hinman – Prime Minister John Howard, under pressure, once described the successive Australian governments' approaches to East Timor as "…

Sydney Morning Herald - November 22, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch in Jakarta and David Lague – The Howard Government will lodge a diplomatic protest after Australia's most senior diplomat in…

Straits Times - November 22, 2000

Jakarta – The Indonesian Attorney-General's Office has found initial evidence of corruption in four contracts agreed by state oil and…

November 21, 2000

Detik - November 21, 2000

Haidir Anwar Tanjung/ Hendra & PT, Jakarta – It is clear that PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia's luck continues to decline. Previously, their oil…

November 20, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - November 20, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Australia's senior diplomat in Jakarta, Mr John McCarthy, has accused Indonesia's former military chief, General…

Sydney Morning Herald - November 20, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – Indonesian military officials actively directed and organised last year's murderous political violence in East Timor, according…

Straits Times - November 20, 2000

Marianne Kearney, Cianjur – West Java has been hit by a wave of brutal killings of shamans, with at least 19 suspected sorcerers being killed by…

Indonesian Observer - November 20, 2000

Jakarta – Thousands of settlers have fled from Wamena town in Irian Jaya (West Papua), following last months ethnic rioting that left at least 31…

November 19, 2000

Agence France Presse - November 19, 2000

Dili – Women's groups and rape investigators say the victims of militia rape and sex slavery continue to bear the scars of post-ballot violence in…

Jakarta Post - November 19, 2000

Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid calls on both electronic and print media to promote truth in their coverage, saying there are…

Agence France Presse - November 19, 2000

Jakarta – Deadlocks are looming between Indonesia and the United Nations, as a UN Security Council mission reports to headquarters on Monday on…

Agence France Presse - November 19, 2000

Jakarta – A flood of settlers who dominate the economy, Islamization and human rights abuses by the military are at the root of growing separatist…

November 18, 2000

Australian Associated Press - November 18, 2000

Catharine Munro Balibo, East Timor – Forensic investigators are looking for the remains of five Western journalists murdered here 25 years ago…

Straits Times - November 18, 2000

Robert Go, Jakarta – With President Abdurrahman Wahid breathing down their necks, the Indonesian authorities have stepped up the hunt for former…

Sydney Morning Herald - November 18, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations has entered talks with senior militia leaders implicated in some of the worst crimes in East Timor last year…

Jakarta Post - November 18, 2000

Jakarta – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Endriartono Sutarto lashed out on Friday at bickering civilian politicians, who he said were grabbing power…

Associated Press - November 18, 2000 (slightly abridged)

Jakarta – In the latest blow to Indonesia's shaky economic recovery, five central bank executives have resigned in a dispute over who should…

Agence France Presse - November 18, 2000

Jakarta – The World Bank yesterday expressed opposition to a reported Indonesian plan to raise rice import tariffs, saying such a move…

Sydney Morning Herald - November 18, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid flew back to Jakarta this week into stormy weather that has nothing to do with the arrival…

November 17, 2000

Agence France Presse - November 17, 2000

Jakarta – The Golkar party, Indonesia's second largest political party, announced yesterday that it would not support calls by certain MPs for…

Associated Press - November 17, 2000

Jakarta – Renewed clashes between government troops and separatist rebels have left at least five people dead in Indonesia's Aceh…

Sydney Morning Herald - November 17, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia is sending 1,300 more combat-ready troops to West Papua as its army chief, General Endriartono Sutarto,…

Detik - November 17, 2000

Muchus BR/Hendra & GB, Sukoharjo – After two days of fruitless negotiations over an increase to Christmas and Ramadhan Bonuses (THR), hundreds…

Detik - November 17, 2000

Iwan Triono/Hendra & GB, Jakarta – The Central Leaders' Committee of the People's Democratic Party (KPP-PRD) denied there has been a split in…

Straits Times - November 17, 2000

Jakarta – Indonesia's economic woes have hit the country's air force. Limiting the flying hours of jet pilots owing to budget shortages, has been…

The Age - November 17, 2000

Craig Skehan, Bandar Seri Begawan – Australian Prime Minister John Howard has used talks with Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid in a…

Agence France Presse - November 17, 2000

Jakarta – United States Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Gelbard, who has embroiled in a war of words with ministers in the Jakarta government, has…

Detik - November 17, 2000

Haidir Anwar Tanjung/BI & GB, Pekanbaru – Up to a hundred people from the village of Okura, Bukit Raya sub-district, Pekanbaru, Riau, have set…

Australian Financial Review - November 17, 2000

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Indonesia will put on trial 22 military and police officers, government officials and militia members accused of human rights…